Speaker biographies
Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI, where he directs the Federalism Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve co-founded and, from 1989 to February 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm that served as counsel in many precedent-setting Constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia. He has written widely on Constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.
William H. Pryor Jr. is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. In 1997, Judge Pryor became Alabama’s attorney general and the youngest attorney general in the United States. He served in Alabama until his appointment to the federal bench in 2004. From 1987 to 1988, he clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Judge Pryor engaged in a private litigation practice in Birmingham until 1995. He currently teaches federal jurisdiction at the University of Alabama School of Law and was an adjunct professor of admiralty at the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University from 1989 to 1995. He is a member of the American Law Institute and served as chairman of the Federalism and Separation of Powers Practice Group of the Federalist Society. In 2002 and 2003, he served as a member of the State and Local Senior Advisory Committee of the White House Office on Homeland Security. Judge Pryor has lectured widely, including at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the law schools of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tulane, and Notre Dame. He has published articles in several law reviews, including Columbia Law Review; Yale Law & Policy Review; Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy; Tulane Law Review; Alabama Law Review; and Cumberland Law Review. He has published op-ed articles in the New York Times, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.
Brooke A. Masters covers Wall Street, the securities industry, and white-collar crime for the Washington Post. Since 2002, she has had a close-up view of corporate malfeasance, covering the trials of Martha Stewart, Frank Quattrone, the Rigas family, and Bernard Ebbers. She reported extensively for the Post on Eliot Spitzer’s various investigations. In her seventeen years at the Post, she has also covered criminal justice, education, and politics. She has written extensively about espionage, capital punishment, and terrorism. Her 2000 articles on the flaws in Virginia’s death penalty system helped prod the state legislature into passing a law that made it easier for inmates who claim to be innocent to reopen their cases. Her prior assignments also include serving as an assistant metro editor in charge of criminal justice coverage. Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer (Times Books, 2006) is her first book.
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